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Contents:

• JAMAI'S FIRST PUBLIC GAY PRI EVENT A SYMBOL OF CHANGE: 'IT FELT LIBERATG'
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• JAMAI TO HOLD S FIRST GAY PRI CELEBRATN THE ISLAND’S PAL
• HERE IS WHY JAMAINS ARE DEMANDG REMOVAL OF LGBTQ GAY PRI FLAG OM US EMBASSY
• GAY JAMAI TRAVEL GUI

JAMAI'S FIRST PUBLIC GAY PRI EVENT A SYMBOL OF CHANGE: 'IT FELT LIBERATG'

A light ra eased the heat and the dancers went home to was all a far cry om the untry that Time magaze lled “the most homophobic place on Earth” 2006. In a 2013 survey of 71 LGBT people nducted by Human Rights Watch, more than half said they had been victims of homophobic vlence.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Non-vlent discrimatn is even more pervasive, wh bullyg and excln faced tn, healthre and wh lol change has e through the ditn of activists, cludg the work of Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-Flag), the untry’s largt LGBT rights anisatn, which this month celebrat s 20th the anisatn lnched on 10 December 1998, ed outrage. Public reactn has, however, been hostile … for the next few years, at least, gay rights our society, as far as road march or public appearanc are ncerned, is a very dim possibily.

JAMAI TO HOLD S FIRST GAY PRI CELEBRATN THE ISLAND’S PAL

So has social media, which has allowed the anisatn, and other groups mpaigng for LGBT rights, to “humanise” gay a rult, the former mister for jtice and the mayor of Kgston have both spoken out publicly support of the group.

”Jaevn Nelson, J-Flag’s executive director, says there has been a “public awakeng” followg two homophobic attacks 2013 – one of them the murr of Dwayne Jon, who attend a party women’s cloth.

HERE IS WHY JAMAINS ARE DEMANDG REMOVAL OF LGBTQ GAY PRI FLAG OM US EMBASSY

Their manifto, the Gay Agenda, was aligned wh the ernment’s Visn 2030 velopment plan.

The Emancipennce holidays celebrate both the end of slavery 1838 and the untry’s break away om Brish lonial le this year has seen a very different kd of symbolic even, one that for LGBT mpaigners the untry marks an equally important moment the future velopment of this young started not wh a proclamatn or a flag beg hoisted up and down a pole but wh a flash mob, an art day and a chance for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Jamains to show thgs are changg for the JA was the first public gay pri celebratn the English-speakg Caribbean, after a siar event had to be nceled due to secury ncerns the Bahamas last year.

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For those volved the week’s activi – anised by JFLAG, the Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals and Gays – was a chance to be proud and visible.

”Jamai has often been scribed as one of the most homophobic untri the world, a untry where hostily toward gays and lbians is voiced om the church pulp to the sound activy between mal is illegal and threats of physil vlence and discrimatn are all too year JFLAG reported more than 80 homophobic cints cludg threats, physil attacks, sexual vlence and displacement, while the high-profile 2013 mob kilg of transgenr teen Dwayne Jon remas was a ncern for the anisers of PRIDE JA, said Latoya Nugent, JFLAG’s tn and outreach manager. Print Obama’s vis to Jamai April was wily anticipated but he too faced protters upset that his vis might promote more tolerance toward the gay muny as s policians bid to improve s human rights rerd.

It’s not only the law but ’s changg the hearts, the mds and attus of Jamains that’s gog to be difficult – we need to move people away om the mob mentaly, ” she Mister Portia Simpson Miller raised hop among gay rights activists the n-up to the 2011 electns, when she said she would not discrimate agast gay policians. Her ments offered a marked ntrast to the prev lear, Bce Goldg, who vowed he would never allow a gay member his bet; but many activists now feel that Miller missed an opportuny for change.. Nearly five years later, the lonial-era legislatn that outlaws homosexualy remas on the statut.